This document presents one key recommendation that came out of a process of consultations in the context of the Amu Darya Basin Network, part of a one-year project on ‘Afghan-Central Asian water cooperation on management of the Amu Darya river: connecting experts and policymakers in the low...
Rice is a major staple food in Afghanistan, and its production contributes to the food security for millions of Afghans. However, over the past four decades, increases in rice cultivation in the Amu Darya River Basin in the northeastern part of the country are contributing to head/tail...
This Commentary synthesizes the diverse viewpoints and arguments put forward at a conference organized by EUCAM, Asian Development Bank, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Wolfensohn Centre for Development (Brookings Institution), hosted by CEPS on March 2-3, 2009 on Regional...
The demise o f the Soviet Union created new international boundaries and, as a result, a host of legal problems related to the management and utilization of natural resources divided by these boundaries. This article surveys the most important transboundary water systems, shared by the former...
In Central Asia, agriculture and water management have ranked as the two most important economic activities in this arid environment. These activities gained even more prominence during the Soviet era as planners expanded irrigation into previously marginal land that bolstered their vision that...
High Level International Conference on the Mid-term Comprehensive Review of the Implementation of the International Decade for Action, "Water for Life," 2005-2015, that took place in Dushanbe, Tajikistan in June 8-10, 2010, adopted 2010 Dushanbe Declaration on Water.
